The Goddess of the Fall Season Salad
by Nwenna Kai
The fall season welcomes in the yin energy. It is the time to go inside and examine, embrace color, and prepare for winter which is really a time to further the expansion of the yin energy and also to create some internal heat for the body. Here is a recipe that will help every Goddess to embrace Herself.
Salad
handful of arugula
handful of pomegranate seeds
1/4 cup walnuts
2 mandarin oranges
1 apple (any seasonal kind)
1/2 cup butternut squash (cubed; optional)
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup cranberries
Dressing
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon of olive oil or walnut oil
1/2 teaspoon nutritional yeast
1/2 teaspoon herbamare or sea salt
pinch cayenne
If you are using the butternut squash toss it in olive oil or walnut oil and dehydrate overnight. Toss arugula, raisins, cranberries, oranges, apples, walnuts, the butternut squash, and pomegranate seeds together in a salad bowl. Whisk together your orange juice, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, and herbamare or sea salt in a bowl. Pour over your arugula salad and add more herbamare or sea salt for flavor along with a little oil and a pinch of cayenne for internal heat. Toss thouroughly and enjoy!
Nwenna Kai is an Urban Eco-Culinary Activist, and a Live Foods and Holistic Health Coach, Educator, Lecturer, Writer, Author, and Consultant. Nwenna Kai is the author of The Goddess of Raw Foods available for purchase at www.amazon.com. She is the previous owner of Taste of the Goddess Cafe, one of LA’s pioneering organic raw food cafes. Her café has been featured in 944 Magazine, LA Magazine, The LA Wave, The Travel Channel, Your LA TV, KTLA morning news in Los Angeles, and E-Entertainment’s True Hollywood Stories about Diet Fads. Celebrities such as Forest Whitaker, Andy Dick, Sanaa Lathan, Meshell N’degeocello, Stan Lathan, Orlando Jones, and Rev. Michael Beckwith, one of the Teacher’s of The Secret frequented the cafe often.
Nwenna Kai has been interviewed on numerous radio, TV, magazine, and blog interviews such as Raw Epicurean, The LA Examiner, Innerlightradio.com, Blog Talk Radio, Purely Delicious, Heart & Soul Magazine, KPFK 90.7 FM Radio in Los Angeles, Front Page with Dominique DiPrima, KYTN Gospel Radio 1460 AM in Los Angeles, Raw Mocha Angels, and VegCooking.com. She is a featured chef in The Ultimate Encyclopedia of the Raw Food Lifestyle DVD series. For her work as an health and wellness entrepreneur, she was awarded the 2007 Elizabeth Dole Young Entrepreneurial Scholarship sponsored by Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP).
Currently Nwenna Kai is diligently moving forward on her new book/documentary project, What’s Really Eating Us? Black women and weight, an anthology of black women’s stories about weight.
Her spare time activities are belly dancing, yoga, hiking, morning walks, and learning about what she calls ‘Yoni” consciousness.
Nwenna Kai currently resides in Philadelphia and is up to creating an amazing life for herself where she can smoothly divide her time between two or three cities of her choice, do her life’s work of transforming people’s health and their lives, and maintain a happy and healthy family.
Her website is www.nwennakai.com. You can contact Nwenna Kai at info@nwennakai.com.